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* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: Joan pleads for her body to be buried on consecrated ground. In real life, her ashes were thrown in a river.
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* AcquittedTooLate: In real life, Joan was found innocent...25 years after she was convicted and burned alive.
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* DisturbedDoves: Joan watches the birds fly off from the church roof as she is being burned.
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* PrayerPose: Joan, upon receiving communion.
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* SingleTear: One of the monks cries a single tear when Joan recants her confession, as he knows it will lead to her death.
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* SecurityCling: Not quite a cling, but Joan tries to hold the hand of a priest while suffering a fever. He pulls it away.
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* Fainting: Joan faints when shown the brutal torture instruments intended to extract her confession.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: The director forced Maria Falconetti to kneel painfully on stone, and then wipe all expression from her face. This is what gives her the expression of suppressed inner pain.
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Joan herself, who wears men's clothes for practical reasons.
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A classic silent film from 1928, by Carl Theodore Dreyer. Generally claimed to have one of the greatest filmed performances ever, given by Maria Falconetti. Her prior work was in light stage comedies and she never made another film.
Joan of Arc is put on trial by the English. They attempt to get her to back down from her claims of holy visions. She refuses, and is eventually [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]].
You can find it on Website/YouTube, but if you can, shell out the cash for the DVD or seek it out on cable. The current version is only 82 minutes, but be sure to mark out two full hours on your PDA; odds are [[HeroicBSOD you'll need some quiet time after]].
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!!This film provides examples of:
* CorruptChurch: The Bishop of Beauvais.
* DutchAngle
* FreakierThanFiction: This film was saved from complete oblivion by a spare copy kept in a closet in a Norwegian insane asylum. How strange is that?
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Joan has shiny, beatific GrayEyes throughout the entire film.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Antonin Artaud, theatre theorist extraordinaire, as Jean Massieu, one of the Bishops/Judges.
* HornedHairdo: One of the judges squeezes his hair into two points.
* LastPlaceYouLook: The original negative was destroyed in a fire, and Dreyer died in 1968 thinking it was lost forever. Fast forward to 1981, when a nearly pristine copy was discovered in a closet in a Norwegian insane asylum of all places. What's more, it was delicate nitrate stock in a sealed can; if whoever discovered it had opened it up when they found it instead of calling in experts, it likely would have literally gone up in smoke then and there.
* TheLateMiddleAges
* MessianicArchetype: The movie is [[PassionPlay ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'']] for a reason. Many scenes in the film echo TheBible, from questioning by [[CorruptChurch religous authorities]] to the English soldiers dressing Joan in a "thorny crown."
* MissingEpisode: ''Very'' narrowly averted.
* [[OneBookAuthor One Film Actor]]: Lead actress Maria Falconetti came from the stage to deliver one of cinema's most celebrated performances, then quit the film industry.
** Actually, she had already appeared on one film, ''La Comtesse de Somerive'', but ''The Passion'' still was the last film she appeared in.
* ShownTheirWork: The dialogue is all the actual court records of what Joan of Arc is known to have said at her trial. She's amazing.
* TraumaticHaircut: Joan's hair is cropped to stubble on-camera. It counts as a real-life example too, as Falconetti apparently begged Dreyer not to have to do it.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: It's not stated in the dialogue -- it's all in Joan's face when the priest asks her who taught her how to say her prayers, and she answers, "My mother."
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A classic silent film from 1928, by Carl Theodore Dreyer. Generally claimed to have one of the greatest filmed performances ever, given by Maria Falconetti. Her prior work was in light stage comedies and she never made another film.
Joan of Arc is put on trial by the English. They attempt to get her to back down from her claims of holy visions. She refuses, and is eventually [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]].
You can find it on Website/YouTube, but if you can, shell out the cash for the DVD or seek it out on cable. The current version is only 82 minutes, but be sure to mark out two full hours on your PDA; odds are [[HeroicBSOD you'll need some quiet time after]].
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!!This film provides examples of:
* CorruptChurch: The Bishop of Beauvais.
* DutchAngle
* FreakierThanFiction: This film was saved from complete oblivion by a spare copy kept in a closet in a Norwegian insane asylum. How strange is that?
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Joan has shiny, beatific GrayEyes throughout the entire film.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Antonin Artaud, theatre theorist extraordinaire, as Jean Massieu, one of the Bishops/Judges.
* HornedHairdo: One of the judges squeezes his hair into two points.
* LastPlaceYouLook: The original negative was destroyed in a fire, and Dreyer died in 1968 thinking it was lost forever. Fast forward to 1981, when a nearly pristine copy was discovered in a closet in a Norwegian insane asylum of all places. What's more, it was delicate nitrate stock in a sealed can; if whoever discovered it had opened it up when they found it instead of calling in experts, it likely would have literally gone up in smoke then and there.
* TheLateMiddleAges
* MessianicArchetype: The movie is [[PassionPlay ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'']] for a reason. Many scenes in the film echo TheBible, from questioning by [[CorruptChurch religous authorities]] to the English soldiers dressing Joan in a "thorny crown."
* MissingEpisode: ''Very'' narrowly averted.
* [[OneBookAuthor One Film Actor]]: Lead actress Maria Falconetti came from the stage to deliver one of cinema's most celebrated performances, then quit the film industry.
** Actually, she had already appeared on one film, ''La Comtesse de Somerive'', but ''The Passion'' still was the last film she appeared in.
* ShownTheirWork: The dialogue is all the actual court records of what Joan of Arc is known to have said at her trial. She's amazing.
* TraumaticHaircut: Joan's hair is cropped to stubble on-camera. It counts as a real-life example too, as Falconetti apparently begged Dreyer not to have to do it.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: It's not stated in the dialogue -- it's all in Joan's face when the priest asks her who taught her how to say her prayers, and she answers, "My mother."
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